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• Chinchipe Spinetail Synallaxis chinchipensis

  

  This furnariid is known from the Río Chinchipe area of northwestern Peru. A 2020 specimen comparison supported treating it as a distinct species rather than a subspecies of a close relative.

• Pectoral Sparrow Arremon taciturnus

  This sparrow occurs in the forest understory of the Amazon Basin. White head stripes and the male's black breast band are useful field marks.

• Peach-fronted Parakeet Eupsittula aurea

  Its green wings have blue edges, and its face has fine markings. Pairs and small groups use open areas and wetland edges.

• Daurian Partridge Perdix dauurica

  The Daurian Partridge is a ground-dwelling bird of dry grassland and farmland in China. It forms winter coveys, and males have seasonal facial markings.

• Blue-headed Racket-tail Prioniturus platenae

  The Blue-headed Racket-tail is marked by a blue head and spatula-shaped tips on its central tail feathers. It is restricted to Palawan and nearby islands, and much of its wild ecology remains poorly known.

• Ferruginous Flycatcher Muscicapa ferruginea

  The Ferruginous Flycatcher has a gray head, orange-brown body, and pale ring around the eye. It perches at mid-height in montane forest openings, often near running water, and sallies out to catch insects.

• Yellow-bellied Sunbird Cinnyris venustus

  The source's main name for Cinnyris venustus is Variable Sunbird. The candidate English name Yellow-bellied Sunbird is also used for other birds, so this entry is identified by its scientific name. The source lists five subspecies and distinct male and female plumages.

• Lynes's Cisticola Cisticola distinctus

  Lynes's Cisticola is a cisticola recorded in the highlands of northern Tanzania. The 2024 Clements Checklist treats it separately from Wailing Cisticola, while also noting that additional corroboration is needed.

• Red Wattlebird Anthochaera carunculata

  The Red Wattlebird is a large honeyeater with a reddish fleshy wattle at the side of its neck. It feeds mainly on nectar, along with insects and fruit.

• Velvet-fronted Euphonia Euphonia concinna

  This small finch-like tanager occurs in the Colombian Andes. It feeds in the mid-levels and canopy of forest, taking fruit and small insects.

• Indian Jungle Crow Corvus culminatus

  This crow is recorded from southern peninsular India and Sri Lanka. ITIS, citing the IOC checklist, lists it as a species, while Clements 2024 keeps it among the subspecies of the Large-billed Crow. This entry describes the southern form in an older regional account.

• Canivet's Emerald Cynanthus canivetii

  Canivet's Emerald ranges from southern Mexico through Central America to northwestern Costa Rica. It visits flowers in woodland edges and scrub to feed on nectar.

• Blue-headed Wood Dove Turtur brehmeri

  The Blue-headed Wood Dove lives in lowland forests of western and central Africa. It has a blue-gray head and rufous-brown body, and searches the forest floor for seeds, fallen fruit, and small animals.

• Buffy Fish Owl Ketupa ketupu

  The Buffy Fish Owl lives in wooded areas near water and mainly eats fish and other aquatic animals. Its yellow eyes, white spot between the brows, and prominent ear tufts stand out.

• Olive-striped Flycatcher Mionectes galbinus

  This entry covers *Mionectes galbinus*, split from the broader *M. olivaceus*. The species account records it in moist lowland and montane forest from Central into northwestern South America.

• Streaked Bulbul Ixos malaccensis

  Adults are olive above, with whitish streaks on the grayish throat and breast and a pale belly. They use broadleaf evergreen forests and edges, eating fruit and insects.

• Rufous Flycatcher-Thrush Stizorhina fraseri

  The Rufous Flycatcher-Thrush is a brownish thrush of humid forest understory.

• Thick-billed Saltator Saltator maxillosus

  It has a yellow bill base and a white eyebrow. The source account lists Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina; an Argentina study reports records in secondary and regenerating forests in Misiones Province.

• Black-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus

  A long-tailed cuckoo with a black bill that hides in woods and thickets while waiting for large insects.

• Black Woodpecker Dryocopus martius

  A large woodpecker of European forests, recognized by its black plumage and red head. It searches for ants and beetles on the ground and in trees, sometimes peeling bark to reach prey.

• Mato Grosso Antbird Cercomacra melanaria

  This antbird occurs in Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay. A study in Brazil's Pantanal found it in understory thickets of forest and seasonally flooded savanna.

• Lake Duck Oxyura vittata

  The Lake Duck is a small diving duck of southern South America. It is sometimes seen holding its tail upright as it swims.

• White-throated Laughingthrush Pterorhinus albogularis

  Adults are described with olive-brown upperparts, a rufous crown, and a white throat. Oiseaux.net distinguishes a western whistleri population from eastern populations.

• Western Banded Snake Eagle Circaetus cinerascens

  A grey-brown eagle with a large head, marked in flight by a white band across its short tail.